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  • Long COVID Staff Clinic: Caring for carers in Taranaki

    … concern. Health care workers have a relatively high level of exposure to COVID-19 and an elevated risk of Long COVID. This article describes an innovative … Te Whatu Ora staff with Long COVID in Taranaki. A survey of key stakeholders found that all respondents considered …
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  • Management of Auckland’s border and COVID-19

    … Analysis of countries with reasonable quality data implies that the risk of Covid-19 infection for most vaccinated international … for people travelling from Auckland to other parts of NZ to help maintain elimination in those places (to give …
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  • Using a fun “Mask Day” at school to promote pandemic protection in the NZ community

    … contain COVID-19 pandemic virus transmission, the uptake of mask use in the public has been suboptimal. In this blog, … on masks, which may lead to increased public engagement of mask use within the wider community. Aotearoa New Zealand is currently experiencing a second outbreak of COVID-19, necessitating Alert Level 3 restrictions in …
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  • Might a ‘Coasean’ social contract mitigate overall societal harm from COVID-19?

    … contract could be forged to address the major dimensions of response to the COVID-19 pandemic when using a mitigation … older people from high death rates and the desirability of maximising freedom from lock-downs and economic wellbeing … everyone else. The social contract could take a range of forms, but one approach could be for a government to offer …
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  • The COVID-19 pandemic in Aotearoa/NZ: A brief photo-essay with 10 photos

    … In this photo-essay of the COVID-19 pandemic in Aotearoa/NZ, each photo is … success factors such as the relatively early introduction of border controls and the stringent nature of the “lockdown”. But we also consider some weaknesses: the …
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  • COVID-19 hospitalisation peaks in Australian States since Omicron emerged: potential relevance to Aotearoa NZ

    … the hospitalisation and ICU burden from the recent waves of COVID-19 in Australia, dominated by the Omicron variant. … peak in hospitalisations in Australia during the months of December 2021 and January 2022 occurred on 19 January with … experience to NZ on a per capita basis would suggest peaks of 1,107 people in NZ hospitals and 90 people in ICUs. We …
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  • “Why not just ban it?” Is it time to consider ending tobacco sales?

    … exactly that back in 2006. Why not just ban the sale of tobacco? This blog considers some arguments for and … than tobacco grown for personal use), importation and sale of tobacco products, whilst not criminalising the use of tobacco. The purpose of such a measure would be to ensure, …
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  • How to best describe NZ’s border control problems around COVID-19 with a possible typology

    … system design or delivery. After considering a range of words, we consider that the phrase “border system failure” … closest to providing a clear, unambiguous description of situations where there are infectious cases in the … within NZ’s border control system could also include ways of classifying “border system hazards” that may represent …
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  • New modelling on the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks in NZ associated with arriving travellers

    … our just published modelling work on estimating the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks associated with air travel to NZ. We … 14-day quarantine are still required. With the spread of more infectious SARS-CoV-2 variants it is critical that … scientific risk assessment is used for NZ and all aspects of border control are optimised for the differing risk posed …
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  • Is funding Euthanasia a health priority for Aotearoa New Zealand: Part 2?

    … Providing equity of access for assisted dying without equity of access to palliative care is to completely undermine the goals of the End of Life Choice Act. The choice is distorted …
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